On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:23:57 -0700, pyotr filipivich
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on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:49:55 -0400 typed in
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:43:34 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
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On 4/19/2021 2:13 AM, Puckdropper wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote in
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Came across a lovely word describing all the materials you find
along the way, aka "salvage", thinggummies, doohickeys, junk, 'parts',
yard sale score, "it was just sitting there with a 'Free' sign", I
could use that for something some day - "Obtainium".

Now I'm wondering if there is an antonym, for when you have too
much obtainium and are downsizing. It's still good for something, but
you have no room for it, anymore.

We're going to be moving, it will be smaller, some of it can find
new homes, other is just too "specialized" as to be easily "rehomed".

I've started "decluttering" or "refilling my wallet." I'm finding new
homes for things by posting them on Facebook Marketplace or eBay, sometimes
getting more than I expected out of them and sometimes less.

You never know. I pulled out some old wire from the house and sold it
after a few months. The lady might have just sold it for scrap, but I
didn't have to strip it, clean it, and find a recyler, I just put it in a
box....

Puckdropper


The opposite is
Unobtainium.

The fuel on that far and distant planet in the movie Avatar.

Unobtanium is something you can't get. We're looking for the word for
something that you can't get rid of. ;-)

Yep. The sort of stuff that if you knew someone who could use it,
you'd just give it to them. Like the lawn mower engine, the portable
propane fired generator, the son of hibachi, and the cardboard core
from a shipment of enameled steel (for making white board.) The gas
engine works, I don't know about the propane generator, I've two of
the hibachis, and what do you do with a cardboard tube four feet high
and two feet in diameter?
I've got a 150% of my needed chisels, more pens that I can use,
but I don't know where they all are. I just donated a set of high
price strap on knee pads because the possibility of me ever doing any
tile or other floor work is near zero. Oh, and anyone want several
open packages of laminated flooring?
Fnord, there's a lot of things I could use, but as step one is
"Move everything out" -and if I'm going to do that, why move back?

You sound like a hoarder. ;-) I have way too much stuff. I've been
going through boxes and throwing away anything that doesn't have
special meaning and hasn't been used (and still in the box from the
last move).

Can you have too many chisels?